It is provided for research and educational purposes only and is not intended to glorify war, any particular country, or political agenda. Unfortunately, as some of the battles were fought in remote jungle locations of the Netherlands East Indies, we only have the reports of survivors to tell us their version what actually happened.

Also, the speed of the Japanese advances in the Netherlands East Indies meant that many historical records that could have useful in studying this struggle were lost or destroyed. However, the contributors to this site have endeavored to enlist as many resources as possible in reporting on this conflict. In order to provide a multi-national perspective on this forgotten campaign, several researchers from different countries have contributed articles that report on the different military aspects of this theatre of operations in World War II.

- Netherlands East Indies (NEI)
- Dutch East Indies (DEI)

The first obstacle was facing serious problems and enormous difficulties with finding available information needed to be researched, and there was also difficult to find many books by the belligerants related to this campaign, especially about the ground actions in the remote parts of the Dutch East Indies, such as Borneo, Lesser Sunda Islands and Dutch New Guinea.

The response of the readers was enormous. There were days when my e-mail inbox was literally jammed with all kinds of messages supporting our site, requests for help, where to find information about their fathers, grandfathers and others related persons, and encouraging us to expand the site with new fresh information, photos and maps.

Several new faces joined us and together we started to produce a new exciting website. The collecting of information and photos became our obsession for more than a year and in this time have managed to gather a lot of new information and photos about the campaign, all displayed now on this new expanded site. Many more sources have also been provided by an enourmous number of fellow researchers from all over the world, and World War II Veterans from USA, Australia, Great Britain and the Netherlands.

Who are the founders of this website? The site was originally an idea and creation of four World War II history researchers, each coming from a different country and in some cases even from a different continent (Europe-North America-Oceania). Their names are:

Daniel W. Muir from United States of America   

Graham Donaldson from Australia   

Jan Visser from the Netherlands   

Klemen L. from Slovenia   

Plus several other military history enthusiasts and computer wizards who have helped to solve quite a few dozen problems and hiccups that were faced with during the construction of the new website. So we would like to thankfully acknowledge their assitance;

Allan Alsleben
Akira Takizawa
Henry Klom
Tom Womack
Jim Paterson
Bert Kossen
Leland Ness
Pierre-Emmanuel Bernaudin
James A. Broshot and many others.

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· Photos of Ljubljana
· Lonely Planet: Slovenia
· Slovenian Coast

Thanks to Terry Cestnik, State of Montana, USA